Photos from Colorado, United States, North America

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If you squint, you can almost see the rainbow that we got to see in person.

This road was full of amazing waterfalls.

This is also typical, with no shoulder, no guardrail, two way traffic, and a sheer cliff.

When we got to our hotel in Crawford we were greeted by an astounding number of ruby throated hummingbirds!

Both Ouray and Silverton have creative uses for old skis and snowboards.

Now we're approaching Ouray. We saw a huge number of dramatic waterfalls, marmots, snowfields. frozen lakes, and mountain peaks.

This is a very typical stretch of road.

It is, of course, beautiful up here.

And now we're on the Million Dollar Highway, which shows plenty of evidence of mining.

We're heading back down, towards Silverton.

And here is Molas Pass itself, at elevation 10,910 feet.

We're getting pretty high up by now.

which takes us up to Silverton

Here we are starting out on the road to Molas Pass

and got to see the views along the way.

We drove up to the top of the mesa

So it was great to be able to come back again during this trip to try again!

When we came here in October, it was snowing heavily and the roads were unplowed, so the Visitor Center was as far as we got.

and beautiful Colorado clouds, sunshine, and distant thunderstorms.

So we ended our day with vast vistas

which is the highest point in Mesa Verde

Our last stop of the day was Park Point

This one is Far View Tower, and I haven't included more because they all look very similar in the pictures.

which got an award for good civil engineering!

that are clustered around Far View Reservoir

We took a walk to Coyote Village, which is part of a whole community of ruins

Pipe Shrine House is the only Ancestral Pueblo I've seen with a carving in the bricks.

and Pipe Shrine House.

and here is Far View House,

The mesa top is also full of ruins. This is Cedar Tower,

We saw a Spotted Towhee there.

which people used to be able to walk around in, but now the rock overhang is unstable.

This is Spruce Tree House

With buildings under every overhang and the Rocky Mountains in the background.

It's hard to see this as a teeming city

and what some of them were used for.

and you're left to wonder how people got in and out

Cliff Canyon is full of ruins

so it wasn't bad at all.

but was also quite short

The trail in and out was not for the faint of heart

and amazing place.

of this really expansive

but still got to see quite a bit

Where we were not able to wander around much

followed by the ranger-guided tour

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